Early MiG Fighters in Action
(Soft Cover)
Product Code: SS1204

Overview

By Stapfer.
Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the MiG Design
Bureau had a near monopoly on the supply of fighter aircraft to
the Soviet Air Force and the nations within Moscow's sphere of
influence. Yet the early designs of Mikoyan and Gurevich are not
widely known; the MiG-1 was the fastest fighter in the world in
1940 and the improved MiG-3 was more than a match for the Bf 109F
at high altitude. Other early designs included high-altitude
fighter prototypes, rocket-powered aircraft and the MiG-9, the
first pure jet-powered Soviet fighter. Updated with 7 pages of
new material and illustrated with more than 100 photographs, plus
10 color profiles, detailed line drawings, and color covers; 56
pages.